Thankful for Serverless
November 2025
Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! It is a USA holiday and I acknowledge not all of my readers celebrate but if you did, I hope it was great. If you didn’t, I hope that week was still amazing for you in it’s own way.
I always found it weird that we practice thankfulness once a year. Really, it should be an “always thing”. You know, we all have our ups and downs and sometimes life seems cruel but we also have things to be thankful about. It may not something tangible like a mansion or whatever but things like health, loved ones, etc.
Anyway, KubeCon North America was a few weeks ago but sadly I did not make it. I sustained a back injury that pretty much took me out of commission for nearly two weeks. I am much better now but needless to say, I was bummed. The Cloud Native community is one of my favorite communities to vibe with.
There is a YouTube Playlist though so I encourage everyone check this out.
Looking at the event, there wasn’t a ton of Serverless talk but maybe we can change that for next year. After all, serverless and Kubernetes are not mutually exclusive. I am working on a blog post that I should drop in December that explains this.
While we are talking about Serverless, let’s jump into the news of November.
Serverless Industry
The serverless security market is rapidly growing and expected to hit $25.3B by 2032
How one financial firm processed $2B in fraud claims with serverless.
Why Tax technology needs serverless.
Serverless computing is one of the top trends in Cloud Computing for Businesses
Startups
Cloudflare to acquire Replicate.
Product Launches
NVIDIA Cloud Functions now a part of DGX Cloud
Grafana and GitLab team up to bring serverless CI/CD observability
Traefik Labs launches a new application intelligence platform that can help you with serverless
Fermyon WASM Functions is GA on Akamai
Aviatrix launches zero trust for cloud native and AI workloads (including Serverless)
Runtimes
Cloudflare Introduces Remote Bindings for Local Development
Data
SingleStore unveils AI focused enhancements for real-time data and serverless workloads!
Iceberg REST Catalog now supported in Google BigLake metastore (serverless data)
AWS introduces Amazon MWAA Serverless
AI
Why your Enterprise Multi-Agent platform should be serverless!
User Aware AI Agents and MCP servers just makes sense with serverless.
Learning
Closing Thoughts
Cloudflare was in the news a lot this month. Their acquisitons and new offerings had to be acknowledged. Of course they are one of the early serverless companies so they will show up a lot.
We had way more serverless product launches this month than in prior months which I think is great. Rewind the clock maybe 6+ years and people were not talking about serverless offerings in this way.
Of course, so were AI Agents. Honestly, I think 2026 is going to be the year of agents which will be great for serverless. 2025 was really more of us just kind of figuring out agents but now we are going to see some serious workloads.
I will be changing the newsletter format so look for another entry sometime in mid-December to explain that format in more detail. The TL;DR is that I just want to publish more so I will be releasing a few different types of newsletters so stay tuned!
See you all in 2026!
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